Information for new contributors

[noatamir]

Hi folks,

Welcome! If you are new contributor, here are some links to resources to get you started:

• Contributors documentation
  • Create a development environment for working on pandas
  • Contributing to the documentation
  • Contributing to the codebase
  • Helping with issue triage

Please also consider joining our contributors' community, where folks connect with each to resolve issues and discuss ongoing work.

If something isn't clear, or doesn't go smoothly, then you can ask in our contributors' community or raise an issue.

As we continue to evolve contributing to pandas, you can check back here for updates in the list below. Thank you for being a part of pandas!

Recent updates:

• 2023.05.09: pandas is changing it's build system to meson. See the new build instructions. If you run into issues, also checkout TRACKER: Getting Started with Meson/Bug Reports #49683.
• 2023.02.24: The pytest arguments --skip-slow, --skip-network, and --skip-db have been removed (TST/CLN: Remove --skip-* flags in favor of -m "not *" #51490). You can use -m "not slow and not network and not db" with pytest instead. See Running the test suite for a full example.
• 2022.10.24: We decided to remove the milestone “contributors welcome” across the entire project. That means that if you see an activity like "@xyz removed this from the Contributions Welcome milestone X days ago" on issues tagged with good first issue, or any other label really, it's safe to ignore it. Please go ahead and contribute to any issue you are interested in.

[phofl]

@topper-123 this was pinned on purpose (also discussed on our slack, so please don’t remove the pin)

[rhshadrach]

@datapythonista - We'd like to leave this pinned, any objection?

[datapythonista]

Ah, sorry, I think I probably confused this with a github popup or something. No familiar with pinned issues, I see on the history that I unpined it, but not that I planned to unpin anything for others.

[Raghav-Bell]

I can help in adding this info as contribution guideline.